Friday, June 19, 2015

2014 JCR Impact Factor for Bioethics and Medical Ethics Journals

Caution: this list does not reflect 'quality', or 'best' unless you assume that a lot of people citing and criticising obviously flawed content published in a journal would demonstrate that that journal is a high quality outlet. All it does is indicate how frequently articles in that journal were cited over a predetermined period of time. It doesn't tell us anything about the reasons for the citations. I included journals I found in JCR's medical ethics as well as its ethics list. - Not that it should matter, but for the sake of it, I co-edit 2 and 6 on this list.

Abbreviated Journal Title {2014}            Total Cites                 Impact Factor
AM J BIOETHICS 1363 5.288
DEV WORLD BIOETH 238 2.054
HASTINGS CENT REP 988 1.684
J MED ETHICS 2845 1.511
BMC MED ETHICS 404 1.495
BIOETHICS 982 1.483
NEUROETHICS-NETH 205 1.311
J EMPIR RES HUM RES 365 1.25
PUBLIC HEALTH ETH-UK 190 1.182
J LAW MED ETHICS 1189 1.097
HEALTH CARE ANAL 357 0.958
KENNEDY INST ETHIC J 285 0.867
J MED PHILOS 675 0.851
ACCOUNT RES 173 0.826
J BIOETHIC INQ 165 0.747
NANOETHICS 146 0.703
MED HEALTH CARE PHIL 448 0.7
CAMB Q HEALTHC ETHIC 344 0.682
MED LAW REV 153 0.65
THEOR MED BIOETH 325 0.537
INT J FEM APPROACHES 48 0.486
REV ROM BIOET 112 0.462
ETHIK MED 56 0.326
ACTA BIOETH 45 0.074

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